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Subject Terms Swindlers and swindling -- Slang -- Dictionaries.

1. Sportsman's slang : a new dictionary of terms used in affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton, and the varieties of life : forming the completest and most authentic lexicon balatronicum hitherto offered to the notice of the sporting world : for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, rendered cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations, and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts useful and proper for novices, flats, and yokels / by Jon Bee, Esq. ...

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Creator:: Badcock, John, active 1816–1830
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [2], xvi, 222 [that is 202] pages, [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts